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OSHA Injury Report: Yoshino America Corporation

Injury · Other recordable case

On , an injury at Yoshino America Corporation in University Park, IL 60484 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was injection Maintenance Technician in bottles, plastics, manufacturing.

Establishment
Yoshino America Corporation
Parent company
Yoshino America Corporation
Street
2500 Palmer Avenue
City
University Park
State
IL
ZIP
60484
On-site location
Injection Department by Husky # 6 machine
Outcome
Other recordable case (code 4)
Type
Injury (code 1)

employee was performing scheduled maintenance on the Husky #[REDACTED] machine hot runner system and working from a three-foot ladder.

employee was leaning too far from the ladder position. This caused his footing to slip and his body to fall forward into the locked-out machine.

Employee fell forward into the locked-out machine impacting his upper right rib torso area against the machine body causing bruising to the area.

Failure to use the three-step ladder safely and slipping into the machine base.

Contusion bruising of ribs front right side slipped off ladder trying to reach out too far from ladder position to machine.

Job description
Injection Maintenance Technician
SOC code
49-9041 — Industrial Machinery Mechanics
NAICS code
326160 — Bottles, plastics, manufacturing
NAICS vintage
2022
Avg employees
94
Total hours worked
166992
EIN
132986989
Establishment ID
641567
Employer case #
1
Date of incident
Shift started
6:45:00.000
Time of incident
15:30:00.000
Submitted
12FEB24:21:32:00

Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year unspecified. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections — no per-record IMIS deep link exists.